Head of Danish Refugee Council reprimands NATO
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has issued a stern reprimand to NATO for ‘supplying cluster munitions or failing to condemn their supply and use.’ In a speech to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in…
MoreEx-Thai ambassador to Denmark in suspicious death
A former Thai ambassador to Denmark has been found dead at his home in Bangkok’s up-market district of Chatuchak. According to reports in Thailand media, the corpse of 63-year-old Vichit Chitvimarn was found…
MoreSouth Korean Prime Minister on lobbying mission in Copenhagen
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will arrive in Copenhagen tomorrow (Tuesday) to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo in the southeastern city of Busan, part of a four-nation…
MoreDenmark no.2 on safe countries list
Denmark is ranked number 2 on a list the safest countries in the world, after Iceland. The annual study by the Institute of Economics and Peace, also known as the Global Peace Index…
More10 million covid vaccines could be trashed as winter innoculation programme gets underway
Nearly 200,000 people have been given covid and influenza jabs since the winter vaccination programme got under way at the start of the month and a further 300,000 have booked an appointment for…
More‘Lazy Danes’ would prefer to work less, not more
Despite the government’s attempts to encourage Danes to work more to sustain the welfare state a new survey shows around half a million employees would prefer to work fewer hours every week. Prime…
MorePM: Bad polls are part of the job
The government’s current wave of unpopularity is ’completely normal’ Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said yesterday after the latest Epinion poll for DR News showed only 36.4% of the electorate would vote for the…
MoreJustice Minister denounces LA leader’s cocaine remarks
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard has dismissed the Liberal Alliance’s (LA) suggestion to decriminalise the use of cocaine as ’extremely dangerous’. After LA leader Alex Vanopslagh said on Wednesday he could see no reason…
MoreUkrainians good at finding work but Indians better
Ukrainian nationals have been succesful at finding work since arriving in Denmark last year following Russia’s invasion – 2 out of 3 are in employment, making them 2nd-largest group of immigrants in the…
MoreGreenland MP – speaking Greenlandic – decries Denmark’s lack of respect
MP Markus E. Olsen spoke in Greenlandic during parliament’s opening debate, Thursday, before switching to Danish to criticise Denmark’s lack of respect for his own country’s language and culture. MP Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam, one…
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